Franken-stein committing voter fraud?

By Kristen

Filed Under General on Nov 12 

It’s sad enough that this former SNL writer/actor declared a run for Senator of Minnesota. But now it appears the recount he demanded is somehow more than cutting in half the lead that his opponent had on him.

A few snippets of this article, which was taken from The Wall Street Journal (emphasis added):

It’s not unusual that state officials, in double-checking the initial election results, would find and fix errors. What is unusual is that nearly every “fix” has gone in favor of Franken.

In Two Harbors, a liberal outpost near Duluth, Franken picked up an additional 246 votes, while none of the other contests in that precinct recorded any changes in their vote total.

……”Mr. Franken’s gains so far are 2.5 times the corrections made for Barack Obama in the state, and nearly three times the gains for Democrats across Minnesota Congressional races.”

The newspaper also notes that the post-election process is being overseen by Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, an ally of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), “of fraudulent voter-registration fame.”

Interesting.

I’d say with three seats away from the desired 60 (and two still undecided), Democrats might have a little incentive to ‘find’ all the votes they can. I guess they’ll stop at nothing.

Personally, I’m not fond of the idea of funny-man Al Fraken being so close to snagging a spot in the nation’s Senate. He’ll fit right in with the radical left already in Washington–which is frightening.

Comments

18 Comments

  1. Alaina on 12.11.2008 at 23:42 (Reply)

    It’s unbelievable. I heard tonight that an election official forgot that he had some ballots in his trunk and they all went to Franken. That’s not fishy at all…

    1. kristen on 13.11.2008 at 00:02 (Reply)

      I heard that too! Totally fishy.

  2. Matthew Avitabile on 13.11.2008 at 01:13 (Reply)

    Cited your article at:
    http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2008/11/franken-stealing-election-in-minnesota.html

  3. Troy La Mana on 13.11.2008 at 03:10 (Reply)

    It doesn’t surprise me that a Democrat would pull every dirty trick in the book to win an election.

  4. Red State Eddio on 13.11.2008 at 09:04 (Reply)

    Boy, if this was a Republican doing this, you know the mantra…voter fraud, voter suppression, lawsuits, civil rights, blah blah blah.

    Why is it when the Dems do it it’s OK?

    1. kristen on 13.11.2008 at 10:28 (Reply)

      Huh, I wonder if the media is biased(?) ;-)

      1. AWB on 13.11.2008 at 11:46 (Reply)

        Impossible! :-)

  5. East of Eden on 13.11.2008 at 10:43 (Reply)

    Kristen, so glad you wrote about this, I was actually going to try and pull something together about it today….

    Anyway, what I don’t understand is how the ballots from the trunk were not missed on the night of the 4th? I also don’t understand how you can go back and “correct” a ballot…can anyone enlighten me?

    I remember as kid, my Dad working the polls in Arizona. One year there was a case where a poll judge handed out the ballots to people in line because the line was long. This is illegal in AZ and that poll judge had some legal cosequences to deal with for breaking the law. Eventally some of those people went home and took their unused ballots with them. When it was discovered that there were missing ballots my Dad along with some other election judges had to go back, find out who these people were, drive to their houses in the middle of the night and get those unused ballots, which were then disqualified because they had left the poll outside of an official election judge’s possesion.

    I also dont’ understand why they are doing a hand recount. Wouldn’t it make sense to recount the votes the way they were counted in the first place? At least that’s how it’s done in the states where I have lived (AZ, UT, NM). Why are we always having this kind of voter fraud back East, and not in the West? Perhaps the eastern states could take a lesson from us yokles out here in the middle of nowhere.

  6. j on 13.11.2008 at 13:58 (Reply)

    I don’t think Franken has involvement in any shenangians. I trust anybody more than the slimy Norm Coleman. I think we should move to scantron and pencils and do it all by machine. This is the 21st century America.

  7. Troy La Mana on 14.11.2008 at 01:38 (Reply)

    Oh come on j!

    How can Franken keep getting votes and Coleman lose votes? How come ever single vote tabulation Colman hasn’t has a single extra vote? How is it that Franken gets more votes then Obama in the same districts?

    The Libs are going all out to get to 60 Senators.

    1. J on 14.11.2008 at 02:56 (Reply)

      I don’t think Franken is directly involved. He spent his career thus far criticizing the right for doing the same. There might be shenanigans but is not directly coming from him. Also the organization posing these ideas are notably right wing: fox news and the Wall Street Journal.

      1. Gary Russell on 14.11.2008 at 23:58 (Reply)

        His entire career?????

        His entire career has been spent as a sideshow circus clown.

        You make it sound as if the guy has actually had some worthwhile contribution to serious political dialog.

        1. J on 15.11.2008 at 08:53 (Reply)

          I am saying he spends his entire political career criticizing the right satirically for all its shenanigans. Logically, one would assume he would not engage in those acts. Unless someone held a predisposition on him due to the fact he was a Democrat. Also, the reason why he will get more votes is because Minnesota is a more liberal in the way it does its recounts. Meaning it checks the votes and awards more questionable ballots, undervotes, and previously uncounted ballots. So if it looks like a person meant to vote for Franken but changed for one reason or another, and there is a somewhat distinguishable mark, the vote will go to Franken. Due to Obama’s presence and Democrat turnout, this favors Franken.

          1. Gary Russell on 15.11.2008 at 11:16 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

            There IS no entire political career. He has never served in politics – he has only cracked bad jokes about politics.
            That’d be like saying that Leno or Letterman has had a long and distinguished political career because they crack a few jokes about politicians every night.

            Franken has proven (over his long comedic career) that he has no morals, scruples, or sense of decency. In other words, he’ll do anything and everything to steal the election if he can.

          2. J on 15.11.2008 at 19:51 (Reply)

            His radio host career then was spent attacking the right satirically. He was not some evil radio show host with no morals or decency. He was producing satirically comedy.
            Ironically, the one of the news organizations to accuse him, Fox News, was the subject of many of his attacks. As a result, this can not be a fair and unbiased source by any means. I am just saying, you know, let’s wait until some evidence comes out against him. The Wall Street Journal is also known to be conservative. I already explained how the recount will favor Franken.

  8. Tobias on 14.11.2008 at 13:01 (Reply)

    its gonna be great when a true patriot like Franken is in the Senate, after every vote is fairly counted (despite Coleman’s attempt to disenfranchise Minnesotans) and the Right will cry and whine because they don’t care about democracy, only power.

    Jeez, now that it looks like Stevens is going down, and Franken could pull this off… it might be worth Obama’s time to head down to Georgia for a day or two to get #60 Martin over the line. If that’s the case, Joe can keep caucusing with us, until he is taken out in 2012.

    1. Gary Russell on 15.11.2008 at 00:00 (Reply)

      A true patriot like Franken…

      I’m still chuckling over that one.
      George Washington
      Ben Franklin
      Abraham Lincoln
      Al Franken

      Yeah, that fits.
      True patriot.
      You’re killing me.

  9. J on 17.11.2008 at 23:01 (Reply)

    Tim Pawlenty said on Fox News Sunday is that there is no evidence of wrong doing in the election, the votes found in the car story was overblown, and the recount will go on as planned.

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